Treaty of Paris Ratified The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, officially establishing the United States as an independent and sovereign nation. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com ...

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch January 28, 1986 Seven crew members died on what would have been Challenger's 10th mission into space. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Cap ...

The History of the Town of Mamakating
The town of Mamakating was organized on March 7th, 1788 and was the first township of Sullivan County. The first county seat was Bloomingburgh; incorporated in 1833. ...

A BIT OF LUMBERLAND HISTORY
By an act of the State Legislature, Lumberland came into existence as a township on
March 16, 1798, taking in an area that was bounded in the east by the Mongaup River and ...

... to the county history despite not actually taking place in Sullivan County.
Many Excepts will be taken from Copyrighted books (With full permission and credit) or from the Historical Society's own Observ ...

The History of the Town of Fallsburg
By Judy Magie
The History of the Town of Fallsburg can be divided into two parts, one describing the town and its growth before the railroad and the other relating ...

The History of the Town of Cochecton
Sal Indelicato, Supervisor/Historian for the Town of Cochecton, has compiled this information from various publications, writings, articles and news sources.
Previous ...

The Town of Bethel was founded in 1809, and is located in the heart of Sullivan County. It is comprised of many small ham­lets. In this brief history I will try to include a little something about each ...

SULLIVAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY MAKER AND HISTORY PRESERVER AWARDS
The individual biographies are original script from the Award Ceremony Programs, which were distributed at the time the ...

Each year, the Sullivan County Historical Society presents deserving individuals or groups with the honor of their “History Maker” and “History Preserver” awards. The honorees for these awards symbolize ...

... History. Judge Lawrence Cooke was the former Chief Judge of New York State and a lifelong resident of Monticello, NY. The book takes a look at Judge Cooke as a person as well as a respected jurist.
The ...

... Age” of the resort era.
John Conway was born and grew up in Monticello, NY. He has been the Sullivan County Historian since 1993. John has written 4 books on local history, as well as many newspaper col ...

... NY. Sullivan County Historian, John Conway, will speak on “Transitions: The Major Changes in Early Sullivan County History .” A musical presentation will follow by “Dirty Stay Out Skifflers” performin ...

SULLIVAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY PRESERVER AWARD 2015
Elsie Winterberger (1910 - )
For Elsie Winterberger, the preservation of the history for her beloved town of Forestburgh was a labor of ...

... prophets and profiteers. They made love, they made money and they made a little history. Arnold Skolnick, the artist who designed Woodstock's dove-and-guitar symbol, described it this way: "Something ...

... til it was suspended in 1935.
On August 10, 1909, Monticello suffered its worse calamity in history when a fire wiped out most of the business section of the village. It was thought that the fire sta ...

Visit: http://www.classiccatskills.com/ for an updated version of this video plus photos and memories of the Catskills region. Kutsher's is one the last great Catskills resorts still in business. At its ...

Published on Aug 21, 2015
Narrated by Cy Plotkin whose parents bought the original Woodlawn Villa in 1920. A brief history of hotels around White Lake and Kauneonga Lake, Sullivan County, New York. ...

The archives and genealogy department has been quite busy with visitors looking for their roots this summer. If you have received error messages when emailing me at genealogy@scnyhistory.org, that glitch ...

... service resort in the world!
The exhibit will explore the hotel's history from a modest 35 room building in the mid 1930s through its closing in 1998.
Featured will be photos, memorabilia, lecture ...

... service resort in the world!
The exhibit will explore the hotel's history from a modest 35 room building in the mid 1930s through its closing in 1998.
Featured will be photos, memorabilia, lecture ...

The family history for the Beismer Family has recently been donated to the genealogy department by Lorraine O'Dell. It, as well as other family histories, will be available to be used at the museum. W ...

A recent acquisition in the Geneaolgy Department is a family history of the Beismer Family donated by Lorraine O'Dell. We appleciate her generosity. It, as well as other family histories that have bee ...

Did you know that a good source of family history can be found in commemorative journals created by schools, religioius groups, or other organizations. A recent family search included information obtained ...

... family searches by the volunteers. Some have been donated just because they thought it would be a good place to share their history.They are a wonderful asset when others are searching their families ...

... hours time filing them. The only genealogy experience needed is a knowledge of the alphabet. If interested, you may contact me at the museum 845-434-8044 or genealogy@scnyhistory.org.
I am looking forward ...

VOLUNTEERS WANTED
Do you like history? Do you like genealogy? The Sullivan County Historical Society in Hurleyville (the Museum and Research Center) is looking for volunteers in many areas, especially ...

Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2011
Allan Wayne Dampman
May 26, 1926 - October 14, 2016
Allan Dampman, a modest and gentle man, is a person of ideas with an imaginative, ...